StartWire.com took a look at its website traffic and noticed that these top 10 companies are in the most demand by job seekers right now.  These top 10 companies hiring all across the country so it’s time to take a look at your options and apply now to these employers.

Are you looking for a position in restaurant or retail?   These are the 10 companies that are attracting a lot of candidates – so we suggest you check them out!  The links below go to recent job listings in your area.

Top 10 Companies Hiring Restaurant and Retail Positions 

1. CVS Caremark – check out CVS Caremark jobs
2. Chick-Fil-A – check out Chick-Fil-A jobs
3. Old Navy – check out Old Navy jobs
4. McDonald’s – check out McDonald’s jobs
5. American Eagle Outfitters – check out American Eagle jobs
6. Panera Bread Co – check out Panera jobs
7. Whole Foods – check out Whole Foods jobs
8. Taco Bell – check out Taco Bell jobs
9. Pizza Hut – check out Pizza Hut jobs
10. Wendy’s – check out Wendy’s jobs

Employee Benefits for Top Restaurant and Retail Companies

Taking a look at some of the perks of working at these top 10 companies hiring – we found great benefits for employees.

Whole Foods Benefits – access to healthcare, dental and vision insurance for both part-time and full time employees, along with many other outstanding benefits

McDonald’s Benefits – provides world-class training and McDs perks which are employee discounted food, and many more benefits

Chick-Fil-A Benefits – provides leadership training, ability to earn college scholarship, and no working on Sundays, and much more

Working Life in Restaurant and Retail

Working in a restaurant or in a retail store can be challenging and rewarding at the same time.  Here are some life lessons of working in restaurant industry.  More restaurant jobs.

Also, if you are considering the retail industry, there are also pros and cons to working a retail job.  Some of the perks are the employee discount, flexible hours and interesting career path opportunities. More retail jobs.

Consider these top 10 companies hiring and many of the other top companies on StartWire.com.

Biovest International will likely add “hundreds” of new jobs in the Twin Cities. The Tampa, Florida based company is renovating a manufacturing facility and preparing to add staff so that that can get a cancer-fighting vaccine to market as soon as it receives FDA approval.

Source: Twin Cities Business

According to a recent recruiters survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council, this year’s crop of newly minted MBAs are receiving more inquiries from employers than 2009 or 2010 grads.

In a poll of over 2000 companies, including 34% of the Fortune 500—fifty-five percent of survey respondents said they planned to hire MBAs. Among the findings:

“The strongest hiring this year is expected in consulting and health care, with 80 percent of health care and pharmaceutical companies and 73 percent of consulting firms planning to hire MBA graduates according to GMAC’s survey.

Additionally, graduating MBAs will see a large number of opportunities in marketing and sales. Almost half of all the companies surveyed planned to hire in these areas followed by financial areas other than investment banking.”

Not an MBA? Looking at MBA hiring trends may help anyway—since demand in industry sectors often translates across experience levels.

Source: NY Metro

If you have experience working with Morningstar’s financial information products, opportunities abound. Check out the 1,000 + positions available nationwide.

Revenues for the investment information segment of Morningstar’s business rose 24% in the fourth quarter.

Morningstar is based in Chicago, but has over 100 in-house positions posted nationwide. Companies that use Morningstar are searching for experienced Morningstar researchers in larger numbers. Kellogg currently has over 460 positions posted that request a knowledge of Morningstar.

(Source: Crain’s Chicago Business)

Not too long ago, you’d be hard pressed to find an American driving down the road in a Hyundai singing “Sweet Home Alabama.” Today’s New York Times reports a different story. Bonnie Raitt may croon “make me an angel that flies from Montgomery,” but the angel investor in the local economy appears to be Hyundai.

According to the Times, new Hyundai manufacturing facilities have brought thousands of jobs to Alabama, and increase in product quality and price appreciation has fueled consumer demand. Kia, Hyundai’s sister company is faring similarly well in Georgia. Both companies produced their highest profits ever in the U.S. in 2010.

Here are current job openings for Hyundai and Kia.

Source: The New York Times

Japanese company Eisai is putting a strong bet behind Cambridge, MA based H3 labs, an R & D lab for Oncology Research.

Eisai has pledged $200M in funding to H3 over the next ten years. We only see two Eisai listings for Massachusetts right now, but predict more later.

(Source Xconomy)

Cloud Computing may be a popular way for software users to access data and applications, but venture-backed Vantage Data Centers is making a $300 M big bet that data centers are still necessary and essential in Silicon Valley.

If you’re in San Francisco or Silicon Valley and have an interest in hardware engineering, you can find new leads to jump start your search for a new opportunity here.

The Littel engine that could beat it’s Q4 estimates due to strong sales. Always a good sign for hiring. We see 45 really good jobs. Most in Chicago…a few sprinkled elsewhere.

Looking to get into Littelfuse?  Throw this search string into Google.

@littelfuse.com (manager OR director) -lead411.com

If you look at the results carefully, you’ll find names, titles, and email addresses for managers and directors at the company. Some may be out of date…but what the heck. Throw them a note. If you have skills they are looking for (check the job listings), we bet they’ll be impressed by your initiative.  

That said, if you are looking for an easier way, use StartWire to analyze your social networks against more than 5 Million jobs (including those at Littelfuse) to get an introduction.  

It’s Fashion Week in New York. Trending topics on Twitter include buzz on new collections from Marc Jacobs, Adrienne Vittadini, and Jeremy Scott.

Go to the sites of these designers and you won’t find any posted openings, but here are 3,500+ fashion forward positions in the Big Apple with an estimated salary of $40,000+.

We’ve also learned from the San Francisco Chronicle that The Gap will be moving it’s creative center from San Francisco to New York. There are more Gap Inc. executive jobs listed in California than New York at present, but expect some movement of opportunities to the East Coast in months ahead.

In the interim, here are current Gap Inc. openings.